 Services
 Strategic
Technology Consulting
At fareENOUGH, a strategic technology engagement simply means
helping you to profitably align your technology decisions with your business
strategy. While business strategy means different things to different people,
it indisputably involves making critically important choices now about
what will happen at some point in the so often unpredictable future.
Unfortunately, many technology decisions are made without any
direct correlation to the strategic business goals, or are made with
unrealistic expectations regarding their costs, implementation timelines,
and real business effectiveness. We have a very simple criterion for
determining what technologies to invest in or divest from: does it work?
We can help you make sense of the how your IT decisions may
play out in the future, based not only on current directions in technology, but
on how the industry and your organization are currently positioned and where
you hope to be in the future. While it's always nice to lower costs, it's
not always the best decision; for example if you can raise more profits in the
future by spending a little more now. For that matter, it may
make more sense to shore up an apparently underperforming but
strategically important business unit due to its complementary effects on
other units.
The key here is to have quantifiable reasons for making
technology decisions that make sense in the overall context of your
business's goals. In light of this, we'd like to mention one easily
quantifiable strategic IT decision you can make right away: with
fareENOUGH, an initial strategic technology consulting engagement has a
typical ROI of 6 to 9 months.
IT
Project Management
IT Project Management has turned into a self replicating monster in its own
right: the industry is replete with horror stories about process gone awry,
cost overruns, and failed projects. Often, the proposed solution is to
apply more management to the problem, thus exacerbating the original
underlying causes of the failure.
In the airline and travel industries, these problems are even more exacerbated by issues
introduced due to the complexity of critical IT systems, these systems' inability to effectively
inter-communicate, and having vendors from multiple countries, jurisdictions, and time zones.
While we cannot simply make all these problems go away, our consultants can help mitigate them. We
have decades of experience managing just these issues, and they are manageable — but they
need to be forseen and accounted for by people who understand the issues involved and have, preferably,
been through the process before.
Software
Development
At fareENOUGH, we pride ourselves on only developing custom software when it's really
necessary, and usually where the development represents the solution to an unusually
difficult problem. Happily for us, this occurs often enough to keep things interesting.
We maintain that a business perspective built on top of technical knowledge is the key
to success with development in any given industry. It doesn't matter how elegant the code
is if it doesn't solve a business problem; by the same token, you can't solve the business
problem with IT if you don't understand IT's capabilities and limits.
With development, just as with strategy, we believe there's only one technology, language,
development process, or hardware solution to your problem: the one that works best to solve that
problem at that time, given the constraints of the environment. We do not proselytize about
particular technologies, we are entirely technology agnostic.
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